1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>kfifo_in</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Linux Kernel API"><link rel="up" href="kfifo.html#idp1125154228" title="kfifo interface"><link rel="prev" href="API-kfifo-peek.html" title="kfifo_peek"><link rel="next" href="API-kfifo-in-spinlocked.html" title="kfifo_in_spinlocked"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">kfifo_in</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-kfifo-peek.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">kfifo interface</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-kfifo-in-spinlocked.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-kfifo-in"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>kfifo_in &#8212; 
2     put data into the fifo
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef"> <b class="fsfunc">kfifo_in </b>(</code></td><td> <var class="pdparam">fifo</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td> <var class="pdparam">buf</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td> <var class="pdparam">n</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1125327196"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>fifo</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     address of the fifo to be used
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>buf</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     the data to be added
7    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>n</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
8     number of elements to be added
9    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1125330844"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
10   This macro copies the given buffer into the fifo and returns the
11   number of copied elements.
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14   Note that with only one concurrent reader and one concurrent
15   writer, you don't need extra locking to use these macro.
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